SC to hear pleas challenging RTI act amendment
New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a batch of petitions challenging amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act introduced through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, contending that they remove the discretion of information commissioners to decide whether disclosure of personal information serves a larger public interest.
The first plea, filed by the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) through advocate Prashant Bhushan, challenges Section 44 of the DPDP Act as unconstitutional. The other petitions to be heard include one by the Reporters Collective Trust and another by Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. These petitions have also challenged the same...
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